Newsom is praising some counties and blasting others as they carry out his signature mental health initiative in the courts.

The Island is now among an elite group of “bicycle-friendly” U.S. towns. Also, the county grand jury is seeking applicants.

L.A. County's supervisors called on the Sheriff's Department to implement new health and safety measures after 10 inmate ...

Voters approved Measure W, a half-cent general sales tax, in November 2020. It was projected to raise $1.8 billion over 10 ...

A federal jury has found Riverside County sheriff’s deputies and jail medical staff were not negligent in the death of a mentally ill inmate who was fatally injured at the Cois M. Byrd Detention ...

The San Francisco probation department is hoping a mobile van will help homeless people on probation keep up with services ...

Caged in a cell, Jerad Traylor struggled to breathe and cried out for help, pleading that he felt like he was dying. And it turned out his feelings of despair were exactly right. Four days after his ...

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When it comes to the implementation of one of Governor Gavin Newsom's signature programs, Tulare Conty is neither a champion ...

FRUSTRATED BY THE SLOW ADOPTION of one of his signature efforts to get Californians with severe mental illness off the streets, Gov. Gavin Newsom on ...

At a press briefing this morning, Gov. Gavin Newsom highlighted Humboldt as having one of the highest per-capita referral rates in the state, with at least 55 CARE Court petitions filed to date. (To ...

A councilmember in the 1980s, Riles has worked for decades connecting global and local social justice causes. His family is ...